Mistakes Quotes

Those who try and fail are much wiser than those who never try for fear of failure.

Failure is something made only by those who fail to dare not by those who dare to fail.

She who follows another’s course, finds a sure path to her own remorse.

If we experience any failures or setbacks, we do not forget them because they offend our self-esteem. Instead we reflect on them deeply, trying to figure out what went wrong and discern whether there are any patterns to our mistakes.

What good has impatience ever brought? It has only served as the mother of mistakes and the father of irritation.

We must somehow get comfortable with the reality of periodic failure. ... Like a trip to the dentist the thought of occasional reverses may not make us tingle with joyful anticipation but then again it's not the end of the world.

Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times you don't want to set him down as a failure until he's dead or loses his courage - and that's the same thing.

Without her, part of my soul was missing. My heart had left with her, when she moved with Henry here, putting half the planet between us, making me wait for the rare phone calls.

What cannot be repaired is not to be regretted.

If you weren’t held responsible for your mistakes, you weren’t making.

Was I on something? Yes, love. The strongest drug there is.

Don't judge me by my mistakes, judge me by the implications they had.

Failure is usually the line of least persistence.

If you play it safe in life you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore.

In many cases, people hold on so tightly to their past pains to avoid letting go of the “excuses” and the fear of having to be accountable for their life.

I won't do that when I'm a parent. I'll make different mistakes, of course.

From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.

Confirmation bias is the most effective way to go on living a lie.

If there was anything I learned from John the Baptist, it was that the sooner you confess a mistake, the quicker you can get on to making new and better mistakes.

Mistakes are proof that you are trying.

Failure is not sweet but it need not be bitter.

Most men fail not through lack of education but from lack of dogged determination from lack of dauntless will.

All of us have failed. One wishes to be punished. One is willing to assume all kinds of penance, but do you know, my daughter, that in love -- I scarcely dare say it -- but in love our very mistakes don't seem to be able to last long?

Failure is only an experience. Experience is the foundation of any success.

If you don't accept failure as a possibility you don't set high goals you don't branch out you don't try - you don't take the risk.

No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn’t trying.

After you have done a great thing for a great glory, sit and think and understand the journey thereon, for a little mistake can erase a great glory!

Take that your accidental self and build it into your ideal self.

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

I have to live with my mistakes, but I don’t have to regret them. I regret my actions but I can’t regret the consequences. We all make our own paths in life. Everyone we meet, everything we do, it changes us. It makes us who we are. And, if we’re lucky, we’re given the chance to make things right again.

There are no regrets in life, only experiences. Every experience helps us to be what we can be.

If your gonna screw up, do it while you're young. Older you get, the harder it is to bounce back.

The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, we learn from our slips all the time, except some people!

What you do now will be in the past right after you do it.

Errors, failures, They are just experiences that will obligate you to evolve.

-No- I swallowed past the fear in my throat- But I'm afraid of fucking it up.- We all fuck things up, Gav. it's how we fix them after we've broken them matters.

Don't worry about not doing "it" perfectly right now. It's ok, just keep at it, you will soon settle in it and then you'll be glad you didn't give up.

Just because you've made mistakes doesn't mean your mistakes get to make you. Take notice of your inner critic, forgive yourself, and move on.

It is a rather remarkable trick of the mind that there can be a wicked little voice that whispers in your ear that you’ve done it before and nothing happened, so why not do it again? Everything will be OK, it says. Things are bad now, but something will turn up. The good will prevail, you’ll be rescued, you’ll find the answer at the last minute. No one dies in a story…

If any good results to a man from believing a lie it certainly comes from the honesty of his belief.

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We have all made mistakes, each and every one of us. The trick is to not keep making them over and over.” “I don’t,” I said, not modestly but truthfully. “I keep finding new mistakes to make. I suspect that I have a genius for it.

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

To incessantly blame others for my shortcomings is cowardice borne of fear, fed by fear, and haunted by fear. To be steadfastly accountable for my shortcomings is bravery borne of God, fed by God, and blessed by God.

He tried juggling with raw eggs – but only once.

There is always much to be learned from bad times, and to many people who prosper, they get good lessons from bad times inorder to find the way out.

Do you ever wonder how we all got here? On Earth, I mean. Forget the song and dance about Adam and Eve, which I know is a load of crap. My father likes the myth of the Pawnee Indians, who say that the star deities populated the world: Evening Star and Morning Star hooked up and gave birth to the first female. The first boy came from the Sun and the Moon. Humans rode in on the back of a tornado.Mr. Hume, my science teacher, taught us about this primordial soup full of natural gases and muddy slop and carbon matter that somehow solidified into one-celled organisms called choanoflagellates... which sound a lot more like a sexually transmitted disease than the start of the evolutionary chain, in my opinion. But even once you get there, it's a huge leap from an amoeba to a monkey to a whole thinking person.The really amazing thing about all this is no matter what you believe, it took some doing to get from a point where there was nothing, to a point where all the right neurons fire and pop so that we can make decisions.More amazing is how even though that's become second nature, we all still manage to screw it up.

He looked so much like me, I could tell that he saw it, too, we shared the smile of recognizing ourselves in each other, how many imposters do I have? DO we all make the same mistakes, or has one of us gotten it right, or even just a bit less wrong, am I the imposter?

An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.

The past doesn't exist. There is nothing to be sorry for. Today is when we start to live. Look... look at the sea. The sea has no past. It is just there. It will never ask us to explain. The stars, the moon are there to light our way, to shine for us. What do they care what might have happened in the past? They are accompanying us, and are happy with that; can you see them shine? The stars are twinkling in the sky; would they do that if the past mattered? Wouldn't there be a huge storm if God wanted to punish us? We are alone, you and I, with no past, no memories, no guilt, nothing that can stand in the way of... our love.

I don’t think it's weak to admit you made a mistake. That takes strength, if you ask me.

What is to be got at to make the air sweet the ground good under the feet can only be got at by failure trial again and again and again failure.

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

If people do not know the rules, they will continue making mistakes and the situation will only worsen

Only human can learn from others’ mistakes, and one who doesn’t, ceases to become a human.

It's the problem with mistakes, they tend to linger.

There is such a thing as the poetry of a mistake, and when you say, "Mistakes were made," you deprive an action of its poetry, and you sound like a weasel.

Even the most honest human in authority often does not have the power to undo the damages that bad people do.